Try the following approaches to deal with stress arisen from the surroundings and situation.

Consider make changes in your surroundings - find out the situational stressors

If you suffering from headache, check if it is a situational stress as a result of reading under poor light, move to another room where the lighting is better. Make a careful survey of the places where you spend a good deal of your time, your study place at home or your workplace for example. Changing your surroundings can mean turning on lights, turning off loud music or raising or lowering your computer chair. Check your surroundings carefully for potential situational stressors.

Tactfully and caringly communicate

Learn how to communicate with those whom you are having problems. Sometimes other people cause your situational stress. This is a more complicated potential source of stress. Whenever there are problems, you owe it to yourself and to the other person to reach a mutually acceptable solution to the problem. This involves communication in a caring and tactful way. Dealing with a situational stress resulting from interpersonal relationship is not easy but it is unavoidable.

Learn when and how to say “No”

Accepting too many responsibilities could be one of the reason for causing situational stress. Some people have a habit of always saying “Yes” to requests for help by others. Sooner or later they are not only have all their own problems and responsibilities to attend to but they have everyone else’s problem too! Knowing your own limits and constraints and learn when you have reached them. Then next step is to practice saying “No”.
Always bear in mind, your own health is your first priority. You are of little use to others if you are not healthy, never let situational stress to hinder your health.

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